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How your workplace environment can make or break a new hire's potential for success. Over a recent breakfast meeting, a colleague, Marisa, was discussing her company's challenges in integrating newly hired people into their culture. She went on to describe candidates who aced every round of interviews and had buy-in from all levels of the company. In her opinion, such high-performers should successfully and seamlessly integrate into the organization's culture without assistance. She was perplexed why some of her new hires hadn't lived up to her expectations--failing to assimilate or just not turning out to be the motivated personalities she saw in the interviews. There was a time...

Set yourself up for success by using nonverbal communication to your advantage. Research shows that 60 to 90 percent of our communication with others is nonverbal, which means the body language we use is extremely important. In addition, it's especially important to make a good first impression. Why? Because within the first few minutes of meeting someone, we are already making decisions about what the other person's intentions are, and whether or not the person is credible and someone we want to do business with. Therefore, the way you present yourself--especially the way you communicate nonverbally in those first few crucial minutes after meeting someone new--could make or break what could potentially be a very important business relationship. Here are 18 ways you can use your body language to communicate your credibility and intentions in a way that will set you up for success every time...

People have a lot of bad habits when it comes to morning routines. Here's how to fix them. The first few minutes of your morning are the most important of your day and can set the tone for positivity and productivity. Ideally, you have an app or clock that taps into your natural circadian rhythm and wakes you during your "best time" within a certain window. Getting jarred out of a deep REM slumber to the sound of a blaring alarm clock sets you up for a negative day brimming with fatigue and crankiness. But getting the right alarm clock is only part of the battle. Here are six ways to start your morning better while kicking bad habits that destroy good sleep hygiene...

Most business owners know that unhappy employees cost them money, but you'll be shocked at how high that cost actually is. A few weeks ago, we talked about why happiness at work matters; this week I'd like to share the flip side of that: the gigantic cost of unhappy employees. Employee engagement has been a hot topic for several years now, but what does it really mean and how do you know whether your employees are engaged at work? And why does it matter? Gallup's State of the Global Workplace reported on employee engagement in more than 140 countries and divided employees into three categories. Below is an excerpt from Gallup's study:...

I groaned when I saw the headlines about Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella telling attendees of a women-in-technology conference that they should rely on karma for a raise. The groan wasn't just about the stupidity of what he was saying. It was also for the HR leaders at Microsoft who I knew would be scrambling to do damage control inside and outside the company. After all,...

Experts confirm and bemoan survey findings showing millennials and recent college graduates are likely to leave first jobs within one year. It's not looking real promising for Gen Zers' and Gen Yers' employment longevity. The latest findings from Oklahoma City-based staffing firm Express Employment Professionals show 77 percent of employers surveyed expect a recent college graduate to stay less than one year in his or her job. In addition, only 23 percent think the average graduate stays at his or her employer for more than a year. The survey report,...

As employers try to boost retention and keep valuable hires on board, they could take a page from an unusual business guru: Emily Post. About a quarter of workers have quit a job because they have been on the receiving end of incivility or bad manners in the workplace, according to a new survey and report on the state of civility from communications firms Weber Shandwick and Powell Tate in conjunction with KRC Research. The company surveyed 1,000 individuals about nastiness they encounter in work and in life. People of all ages reported observing rudeness at work, but...

An important skill for young workers has a variety of definitions. Critical thinking is a critical skill for young workers these days. What that means, though-and how to measure it-is less clear. Employers complain that colleges are not producing graduates who can solve problems and connect the dots on complex issues, but bosses stumble when pressed to describe exactly what skills make critical thinkers. That leaves job seekers wondering what employers really want and, once on the job,...

While there are as many different possible interview questions as there are interviewers, it always helps to be ready for anything. So we've prepared a list of 100 potential interview questions. Will you face them all? We pray no interviewer would be that cruel. Will you face a few? Probably. Will you be well-served by being ready even if you're not asked these exact questions? Absolutely...

As more millennials continue to enter the workforce, employers are increasingly turning their attention to recruiting them. But if employers think Generation Y workers will respond to the same old tactics they used in years past, they may want to think again: Millennials aren't always the easiest to recruit. "[According to a Kauffman study],...

When recruiters look through a stack of resumes for candidate screening, what is the vital information they focus upon? Answer by Ambra Benjamin, engineering recruiter at Facebook, previously LivingSocial, Google and Expedia. I think this varies from recruiter to recruiter and also depends on the role for which you're applying. For one, I don't look through stacks of resumes anymore. I hate paper. I do everything online. But I'll highlight briefly how I personally absorb a resume...

What reply does the interviewer expect when he asks, "Do you have any questions for us?" I am a penultimate-year student and will be appearing for my interviews very soon. How should one tackle such questions? Answer by Ambra Benjamin, engineering recruiter at Facebook, previously LivingSocial, Google and Expedia. I think it's important to note both now and throughout your entire career that when you interview for a job, you are interviewing the company as much as they are interviewing you. Having well thought-out questions to ask during your interview is part of the research process, and helps...

In the midst of the job search, it feels like you've been waiting forever to get a call back from your recruiter. After you finally get the nerve to call, you hear, "We'll keep your resume on file." Does that mean the recruiter will call you as soon as a position opens up? Or is he just being nice? There's a communication problem between job seekers and recruiters that often leaves both parties confused and frustrated. Optimistic job seekers are up for trying anything, but recruiters don't want to be rude to unqualified applicants. MedReps.com compiled an infographic providing solutions for common miscommunications between job seekers and employers. Some interesting points to note include:...

Maybe you've seen him on TV, relaxing with couples who've met on his popular dating site, eHarmony.com. Founder and CEO Neil Clark Warren says the dating game is a lucrative one: 44 million people use the site, and 1.2 million people he's matched since 2000 have walked down the aisle-more marriages than any other online dating service, according to a 2013 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Now he and others are ready to take on a different kind of matchmaking: pairing job seekers and jobs. But can they do for recruiting what they've done for dating? Warren thinks so, but...

If you've read my columns before you know I'm not a fan of automated recruiting systems. They suck in the resumes of lively, bright and accomplished people and then shred their atoms apart and send them through wormholes into other dimensions. That might not be exactly what happens, but it might as well be, because your odds of hearing back from an employer after lobbing a resume into one of those Black Hole recruiting portals are essentially zero. You'd be better off...

I was not always a writer, coach, speaker and pen-and-marker fiend. I used to be a Human Resources person. I ran Human Resources departments in the startup world and the Fortune 500 world, too. I hired thousands of people, and I noticed one glaring truth about who gets hired. It doesn't have to do with the job-seeker's resume, clothes, age, nationality, price tag, patter, track record or educational credentials. The people who got hired were...

When I was twenty-four I managed an Order Processing department for a greeting card company on the north side of Chicago. I loved my job. We had a great crew and we got a ton of work done. I was finishing my degree on the weekends and singing a lot. I wasn't thinking about changing jobs. We had a flap at our distribution center sixty miles south of Chicago. My boss John Brady, the VP of Operations, sent me to...

For Uber, alienating the legacy taxi services it competes with and the cities that collect millions in license fees from them was unavoidable. But in a matter of months, the company also lost the good will of drivers, who say they don't make nearly as much as promised; customers, who drunk and far from home, get had by surge pricing; and now, the press. The problems all seem to all trace back to what one astute observer calls Uber's "win-at-all-cost culture." And if barreling through the taxi industry and any other entities who stand in Uber's way has - so far - afforded Uber great success, it could also quickly turn against the company. Is that what we're witnessing this week?...

But that's okay, says a former Google executive, because companies that need tech talent aren't competing for the same people. When it comes to U.S. tech employers, there's Google, and then there's everybody else. Perched atop our list of the best places to work for the fifth straight year, the company attracts more than 2 million job applicants a year and hires only about 4,000 of them. "It's easier to get into MIT than it is to get hired by Google," notes Tom Leung, who spent three years there as a product manager. "Google is very, very picky, because they can afford to be." Leung is...